I Have a Poison Ivy Rash for Two Days. Besides Topical and Allergy Meds What Would Be the Best Treatment Now?
Question by Patty M: I have a poison ivy rash for two days. Besides topical and allergy meds what would be the best treatment now?
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Answer by Stephanie
you may need a cortisone shot.
Answer by Do Santo File
For a home remedy, try applying the crushed leaves of jewelweed (Impatiens capensis). For a picture of jewelweed, see the photo below. The beauty of this home remedy is that jewelweed is a common weed in damp areas. This “treatment” may very well be growing right in your own backyard!
But there is another kind of treatment of poison ivy rash: namely, prevention. If you realize you’ve just come into contact with poison ivy, take the following steps immediately:
Apply rubbing alcohol to the infected area.
Rinse with water (any water).
Wash up with soap and warm water.
So what makes poison ivy (and poison oak and poison sumac, too)…well, poisonous? The answer is urushiol, which is the sap that runs through all parts of the plant. Grazing against poison ivy with any exposed part of your body is all that it takes to release this poison. Complicating matters further, contact with poison ivy does not even have to be direct for you to contract the rash. For instance, if your dog runs through some poison ivy, then you stroke your dog’s fur with your hand, you could come into contact with the sap and develop a rash. Likewise, if someone else had been working in a poison ivy-infested area with gloves, then you came along and touched those contaminated gloves, you could get the rash.
So if the poison is spread that easily, poison ivy must be contagious, right? Wrong. It’s only the urushiol that puts you at risk. Scratching your bumps doesn’t cause the poison ivy to spread to other areas of your body. Nor will you contract the rash just by touching somebody else’s rash bumps. Once the bumps are present, the damage that the urushiol can inflict has already been inflicted.
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